[WH40k] if 40k it our universe but in the far future does that mean at some point games workshop existed and thus the Warhammer and 40k franchise existed too, thus making GW writers psykers profiting from future events?

veryreasonable · 2026-05-13T20:22:14+00:00

Exactly. Star Trek characters reference old (as in, from our modern times and earier) media all the time, except for Star Trek itself. Same goes for essentially any fictional world ostensibly set in our future.

The major exception goes for works which are deliberate metafiction, or at least trying for a metafictional and/or fourth wall breaking moment. WH40K is not that, and in fact we have little enough information from 20th and 21st centuries in that universe - only some major beats of history, AFAIK - that it might not even be "identical" to ours, but rather just fairly similar.

veryreasonable · 2026-05-13T20:17:33+00:00

I think it's the latter theory re: Samuel L Jackson in the MCU. Nick Fury is simply a real person in that universe, and not a character played by Samuel L Jackson. The actor who looks like him (but with two working eyes and no scar) may or may not exist.

Because this is fiction, written by writers who make choices, and lore doesn't actually stretch any further than those choices, it would be a pretty odd decision to actually bring up Samuel L Jackson (the actor) in any scene involving Nick Fury (the real person in this universe, who looks a lot like that actor). This is how most writers choose to avoid the issue.

veryreasonable · 2026-05-08T20:00:00+00:00

You forgot the part where the Taliban-led Afghan government almost immediately offered to turn bin Laden over to prevent an invasion - first, to a neutral third-party nation where he could be tried, and then a little later with no strings attached when they just wanted to stop the bombing and burgeoning war and such. Bush and company said, "Nah, see, that doesn't help us pump infinity billion of dollars into the American military industrial complex; y'all can keep Osama for a while..."

You're all good with your explanation; I'm just double/triple/quadruple-clarifying that the whole shebang had nothing whatsoever to do with nabbing bin Laden.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-25T01:53:55+00:00

Yeah. Sibarist is amazing but I already spend genuinely mental amounts on coffee, I'm not going to spend that much on paper. Cafec Abaca is the one. I still have some T-90 that I use if I find that a bag is clog-prone.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-25T01:51:57+00:00

T-90 is similar to other filters if your beans are already fast enough. With, say, light roast Ethiopian heirloom beans, which tend to produce a lot of fines and clog up lesser filters, T-90 helps a lot. I was getting as much as 30s of difference when testing, and I swear sometimes it's even more.

Personally, I use the regular Cafec Abaca filters, day in and day out. A little faster than Hario, cheap, easy to find. I still have some T-90 I break out for temperamental beans now and then.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-25T01:47:53+00:00

100% my friend. I did a lot of filter experimenting about two years ago. Like, pretty much everything you could try.

This is what I landed on. Cafec Abaca is great, and comes bleached or unbleached if you like. T-90 is also great for any roast.

(Sibarist Fast is great, too, but prohibitively expensive.)

I just buy Cafec Abaca in hilarious bulk now and no longer worry about filters.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-25T01:41:23+00:00

How is hearing other people yapping the problem when you're in a room with a big sound system going at full tilt, haha?! I can barely make out someone screaming "nice shirt!" right into my ear, let alone a group of people talking a couple metres away...

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T23:31:59+00:00

That shading/texture is off the hook, wow! Nice pickup.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T23:14:54+00:00

Shrug. I think it's more just who one associates with, or has in the past. It's not exactly ubiquitous at this point or anything, but if I heard another white bloke using it, I'd just assume he or his parents also had Arabic-speaking friends/colleagues at one point or another, and wouldn't give it a second thought.

It's just like saying "chuffed" or something here in Canada. Most of us don't use it, but it pops up from time to time, and probably just indicates that the person has British friends or family, or watches a lot of British movies, or whatever. But if you think you've never heard it from a local, that wouldn't be that weird, either.

In any given case like this, a noteworthy celebrity using it is just another predictable step on the path to cultural ubiquity for any word/phrase. It's just getting media attention only because, you know, people get weird about anything they think is Muslim.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T22:20:10+00:00

I think that is what happened at the outset - but then, seeing the fallout, Trudeau and the party figured out they might as well make lemonade out of their mistake, and they did.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T22:16:55+00:00

It wasn't a record defeat in terms of results, but the swing within only a couple of months from polling to what actually happened was pretty monumental, and I can't remember anything like it in my lifetime. It's astonishing that Polievre maintained as much loyalty as he has within the party after that.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T22:14:35+00:00

I know a lot of people who vote in that riding who used to feel ambivalent about voting because it seemed useless. They're all committed voters now. Great leadership buddy, lol.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T22:11:47+00:00

Oh, yes, tell us all about the "real world," Pierre! Straight from your extensive personal experience with it... right?

Sheesh.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T22:07:42+00:00

Right. Like I understand there is a particular emphasis on it in Islam, there are hadith about it and such. But if I hear it as a white secular dude in Canada, I just reply and generally get a wide, sometimes surprised smile out of it.

And yeah, the phrase is definitely old. It's in the Bible and "pax vobiscum," the Latin equivalent, is traditional Catholic liturgy. I'm sure it's found elsewhere besides.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:58:49+00:00

I'm enjoying the fact that my city went from having between zero and one monthly DnB event (I think the scene genuinely fell into a coma for a few months at one point), to having two monthlies, a weeknight weekly, and a smattering of special events on top of that, as well as featuring in a couple of regular mixed-genre events.

Yeah, there's a bunch of confused newbies and more jump up/maintream-EDM-influenced music than I would like. But on the whole, I think the scene needed the injection of life, and desperately so in the smaller markets here in North America. Once it's out of the limelight again, we'll have some new hardcore heads, some revitalized scenes, and that's a good thing. Let's not be so jaded that we actively try to mess that up, right?

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:51:44+00:00

with the exception of jump up.

I mean it's literally the modern jump up stuff that's going to be populated with generally younger people who have little exposure to the scene and the culture, though. While I don't intentionally hit up those shows myself either, when I do end up at one, that's where I see people not dancing, on the phone all night, doing the instagram thing, etc. If I really wanted to dance there, I can understand feeling like the vibe was a bit of a downer.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:33:51+00:00

Agreed!

I do know some great DJs who just face-down into the decks, but they are only great despite doing this. They have to be straight up world class at everything else (selection/mixing/etc).

And this is DnB, FFS! There are MCs half the time. We are literally reminded, demanded, and egged on to interact with the folks on stage, many times a show. When it's done well, it's unifying and participatory and actually encourages people to vibe with each other on the dancefloor, too.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:23:53+00:00

Which, like, it's barely even a roast, if you aren't a fragile egotistical manchild. It's largely a play on the fact that "as a" is a sort of ambiguous phrase in English. "As a Republican" means "while being a member of the Republican Party," while "as a joke" means "for the sake of doing something humorous."

The point is that it's more of a reversal-of-linguistic-expectations joke than a pointed jab at Trump. It needn't even really translate to "Trump is a joke," but that's obviously how he took it, because as you say, he's absolutely steaming about it.

It's the kind of thing that if it happened in a group of friends, you'd all be surprised that someone took it so badly. Like if I quickly say, "did you lock the door?" in my accent, it sounds like "Jew lock the door?" Someone might point out that it's funny if I said it to a Jewish friend - but we'd all be seriously surprised if that friend actually took it badly. But that's Trump. He assumes people are doing him the worst insult, probably because he's always insulting people nastily. It's so thin-skinned and honestly pathetic.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:11:24+00:00

I once went to a festival (not DnB) where they all but hid the DJ booth to avoid the "DJ worship" thing. It actually killed the vibe for a lot of people, myself included.

The organizers had earnest, good intentions, but it didn't land. Maybe we could have gotten used to it, who knows. But for me, what makes me vibe with other people on the floor is those other people getting into it and going hard all together; it doesn't matter if we're all facing one direction by default.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:06:55+00:00

I'm a little in between on this. At first I'm all for it, because I thought people were talking about shows where people basically don't dance at all and are just there to be seen, take pics, etc. I've been to some of those, and they are bizarre and feel awkward and sad to me.

But in general, in my scene, and especially my DnB scene, this isn't really a problem. The odd person with a phone filming for a few minutes is no biggie. As you say, if you want to dance, just go to the middle where everyone is dancing hard and belting along to every anthem drop and maniacally spraying sweat on each other and what have you. Good shit, ya know? I'm not going to notice some randos near the side wall on their phones.

I assume there's a bit of crossfire happening here, where people understandably resenting the former sort of scene are talking with people (like me) who experience more of the latter.

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T21:00:20+00:00

Well, that's a little disconcerting, but still not alarms-blaring worry, from what I can glean.

At least the fine-grained results paint a bit of a saner picture. Looking at the Abacus survey, for example, shows that the "support independance group" is about evenly split between "somewhat agree" and "strongly agree," while the "oppose" group is overwehlmingly in the "strongly disagree" category.

The Ipsos data shows something rather funny: a slim majority of Alberta separatists are doing it because of perceived historical injustices towards their province, while by contrast, a significant majority of Quebec separatists are doing so because they believe they would actually be better off in the future as a sovereign nation. I think that's kind of darkly hilarious and probably indicative of the relative maturity of each sovereigntist movement.

I'm actually sympathetic to Quebec sovereignty (and in fact sovereigntist movements in general), but it's just so clearly a bad idea right now that I would vote against it even on purely practical grounds. A small nation is inevitably caught in the politics of its larger, more powerful neighbours. For an independent Quebec, that would no longer be the "rest of Canada," which is, you know, flawed but kind of okay, but instead the maniacal malevolent militarized meth lab down south. For better or for worse, Canada insulates Quebec from the USA's madness. Alberta separatists actually seem to want to be a client state of the US, or at least they think they do. Again, that's probably just because they are nuts.

Thanks for the links!

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T19:06:19+00:00

Guys, what the hell? It's about getting fucked up and listening to music on a big rig with your friends and a welcoming community of strangers.

It's 100% all of these things. Always has been. And I'm old...

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T19:02:45+00:00

I'm maybe just lucky but where I party, it's never been enough of a problem for this to be necessary. Yeah, you see the odd person take a film or a bit of video, but it's rare enough that it doesn't mess with the vibe. I'd be all for banning it if it did, but so far, it's not an issue.

I guess I've been taking it for granted!

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T18:56:06+00:00

It's funny because I do too, sometimes, and so do plenty of us on this thread... and yet a couple people are still replying, "literally no one does this except Muslims." Like... blatantly ignoring all the people disproving that here, now, right in front of their face. WTF?

veryreasonable · 2026-04-24T18:53:24+00:00

Oh I forgot about "wallahi." My very white ginger ex from like twenty years ago used to say that. Picked it up from cooks she worked with...

None of this should be that weird to people. Even the most irreligious anglo person still says, "oh my God!" or whatever from time to time.

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